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Brandeis swimming team had a pair of losses to Roger Williams University last Saturday but managed to win 10 events. The men’s team lost 144-110 and the women’s team fell by 152-116. Distance swimmer Theresa Gaffney ’16 finished first in the 1,000-yard freestyle at 11:49.30, while Holly Spicer ’13 won both breaststroke events and set […]
The 17th-ranked Brandeis men’s soccer team defeated NYU 1-0 in the regular season finale Nov. 3. With the win, the Judges finish the season with a record of 16-2-1 (4-2-1 UAA) and a four-way share of the UAA title for the first time ever. A bizarre series of events led Brandeis, Washington University St. Louis, […]
The fencing team pulled off multiple victories at the season-opening competition at Smith College last weekend. At the New England Fall Collegiate Invitational, colloquially called The Big One, four men and two women from Brandeis’ fencing team medaled. The wins included Caroline Matos ’16, who pulled a win for women’s foil, Adam Mandel ’15 with […]
Rather than provide changing facilities strictly divided between males and females without consideration given to differing sexual orientations, the university athletics department recently implemented gender-inclusive locker rooms at the Linsey Pool Center. Deemed a proactive measure by Athletic Director Sheryl Sousa, the changing rooms are currently available for use. According to Sousa, prior to the […]
Damiana Andonova ’15 became interested in the complicated topic of premature birth when she was just a junior in high school. “I was always fascinated with obstetrics and perinatology. In 11th grade I realized that causes of prematurity are still speculative,” she said. “Way back in the 1500s, DaVinci was thinking about causes of prematurity […]
Professor Catherine Mann (IBS) was nominated last month as Economist Intelligence Unit’s (EIU) Business Professor of the Year. Mann began teaching at Brandeis in 2006 and spent 25 years prior to that working in Washington, D.C. Mann has taught at least one course every year since she completed her Ph.D. at MIT in 1984. Before […]
Since hip hop rose from the streets of Brooklyn in the 1970s, artists’ careers have largely been measured by their debut albums. Such classics as Nas’ “Illmatic,” Jay-Z’s “Reasonable Doubt” and Kanye West’s “The College Dropout” resulted in career-defining albums that have had a lasting impact on hip hop as an art form. Kendrick Lamar’s […]
In an email to the student body, Provost Steve Goldstein announced the next steps in the already long-running Strategic Plan. The university released a “preliminary framework” four weeks ago, which went through multiple rounds of committee discussions involving the entire campus. The next steps for the plan involve taking it to the trustees, whose meeting […]
According to the Jerusalem Post, a record number of Israeli-Americans cast their vote in this election. Four times the amount of absentee ballots were sent from Israel to voice their support for Barack Obama or Mitt Romney. Unsurprisingly, Israelis supported Romney over Obama. Exit polls show that Romney received 85 percent of the Jewish vote […]
Two years after Brandeis began the Justice Brandeis Semester, the programs are growing in popularity and engaging new groups of students. Fourteen students are enrolled in the Environmental Field Semester with Professor Brian Donahue (AMST), the largest number since the program’s inception, according to Professor Laura Goldin (ENVS). Over the summer, 12 students were enrolled […]
